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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Welcome New Members
  3. Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Precise
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
    4. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  5. LoCo News
    1. Ubuntu-BR-SC LoCo Team Blog Launches New Visual Identity
  6. Launchpad News
    1. Meet Vincent Ladeuil who works in the Blue Squad on Launchpad
    2. Meet Martin Packman in the Blue squad
    3. We’re hiring software engineers to work on cloud projects in Canonical
    4. Are you a technical writer -Want to work with amazing people and great team- Come join us
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. EC2 S3 Mirrors globally available
  8. The Planet
    1. Lucas Nussbaum: Introducing the Debian Maintainer Dashboard — help needed!
    2. Lubuntu Blog: Quantal UI Improvements
    3. Nicholas Skaggs: Call for Testing: 12.10 kernel on 12.04 -- Part Deux
    4. Daniel Holbach: Making better apps possible
    5. Jonathan Carter: Facebook ads for MOTU?
    6. James Henstridge: u1ftp: a demonstration of the Ubuntu One API
  9. Canonical News
    1. Ubuntu server 12.04: Fast and flexible
  10. In The Press
    1. Why Google and Ubuntu don't say “Linux”
    2. Shuttleworth: Why Windows 8 made us ditch GPL Linux loader
  11. In The Blogosphere
  12. In Other News
  13. Other Articles of Interest
  14. Featured Podcasts
  15. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  16. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  17. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
  18. Subscribe
  19. Archives
  20. Additional Ubuntu News
  21. Conclusion
  22. Credits
  23. Glossary of Terms
  24. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  25. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 273 for the week July 2 - 8, 2012.

In This Issue

General Community News

Welcome New Members

Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (#) +/- # over last week
  • Critical (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translation Stats Precise

  1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

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Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week

Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo News

Ubuntu-BR-SC LoCo Team Blog Launches New Visual Identity

Tiago Hillderbrandt presents a new design for Ubuntu-BR-SC LoCo Team’s blog, called Ubuntu Way.

http://tiagohillebrandt.eti.br/blog/ubuntu-br-sc-loco-team-blog-launches-new-visual-identity.html

Launchpad News

Meet Vincent Ladeuil who works in the Blue Squad on Launchpad

Laura Czajkowski interviews Vincent Ladeuil, one of the current Blue Squad maintainers, about his work at Canonical, role/work at Launchpad, free software experience and much more.

http://blog.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-vincent-ladeuil-who-works-in-the-blue-squad-on-launchpad

Meet Martin Packman in the Blue squad

Laura Czajkowski interviews Martin Packman, one of the current Blue Squad maintainers, about his work at Canonical, role/work at Launchpad, free software experience and much more.

http://blog.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-martin-packman-in-the-blue-squad

We’re hiring software engineers to work on cloud projects in Canonical

Laura Czajkowski announces that Launchpad is hiring software engineers to work on cloud projects in Canonical. Czajkowski states: “Alongside four or five other engineers, you’ll be part of an agile engineering squad, in Canonical’s Launchpad team, working in either a new development or maintenance role on a different cloud-related project every six to nine months. Your work will touch projects such as OpenStack, MAAS, AWSome and the Launchpad SaaS developer tools platform.”

http://blog.launchpad.net/were-hiring/were-hiring-software-engineers-to-work-on-cloud-projects-in-canonical

Are you a technical writer -Want to work with amazing people and great team- Come join us

Laura Czajkowski announces that Launchpad is hiring technical writers. Czajkowski states: “As technical writer in Canonical’s Launchpad team you’ll find the best way to ensure that users and developers of our software understand its benefits and how to use it. Whether it’s traditional documentation, screen casts or blog posts, you’ll find it easy to choose the right medium and you’ll have all the skills necessary to produce compelling, involving and effective content.”

http://blog.launchpad.net/were-hiring/are-you-a-technical-writer-want-to-work-with-amazing-people-and-great-team-come-join-us

Ubuntu Cloud News

EC2 S3 Mirrors globally available

Ben Howard writes that in “an effort to improve reliability of the Ubuntu archive mirrors, Canonical undertook a project to host the archives utilized by EC2 instances with Amazon’s S3” and announces following the move of us-east-1 to Amazon S3, all remaining EC2 regions have now been migrated to S3. http://utlemming.azurewebsites.net/?p=451

The Planet

Lucas Nussbaum: Introducing the Debian Maintainer Dashboard — help needed!

Lucas Nussbaum introduces Debian Maintainer Dashboard. Some of the dashboard’s features including :

  • Reports buildd issues (failed builds)
  • Upstream status monitor that works (UDD has its own)
  • Knows about teams’ VCS (if your team uses PET) and display the current version in the VCS
  • Lists packages you maintain or co-maintain, and also the package you showed interest for by subscribing to them on the PTS

Nussbaum also writes how he needs help with web design. So, everyone who is interested can contact him for further information.

http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=722

Lubuntu Blog: Quantal UI Improvements

The Lubuntu Artwork Team is working toward revamping many of the UI elements, including an improved icon theme and a redesigned GTK2/GTK3 theme. The Wallpaper Contest is still ongoing, and submissions are still being accepted through Flickr.

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2012/07/quantal-ui-improvements.html

Nicholas Skaggs: Call for Testing: 12.10 kernel on 12.04 -- Part Deux

Nicolas Skaggs announces call for kernel testing together with instructions. Skaggs states: “As announced earlier the kernel team is looking for some folks to help bring the 12.10 kernel to 12.04. Once 12.10 has been released, the team wants to enable newer hardware support via the kernel for the LTS version of the desktop.”

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/07/call-for-testing-1210-kernel-on-1204.html

Daniel Holbach: Making better apps possible

Daniel Holbach posts about the recent Ubuntu Apps Sprint and covers their progress, including:

  • Number of bugs fixed in arb-lint.
  • Smaller issues in packaging which were related to bugs in python-distutils-extra are fixed.
  • Problems with apport hooks in apps which are now solved.
  • Allison’s Trello board set up and review of many apps.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2012/07/making-better-apps-possible/

Jonathan Carter: Facebook ads for MOTU?

Jonathan Carter writes about ways how to attract more people to Ubuntu as a MOTU and discusses his experience with Facebook ad where he states: “The ad was displayed a total of 20 661 times. That’s what Facebook considers it’s “outreach”. So out of the 129 520 users who were targeted, it was displayed for 20 661 of them. 59 people clicked on the link (that’s about as far as you can get with $25).

Did it get more people interested in contributing to Ubuntu? I have no idea. This experiment was mostly to see what $25 gets you in ads.”

Carters says he still prefers Google+ as the way for attracting more people to Ubuntu since, as he writes, there are more geeky people who are eager to share information.

http://jonathancarter.org/2012/07/04/facebook-ads-for-motu/

James Henstridge: u1ftp: a demonstration of the Ubuntu One API

James Henstridge shares a small program he wrote to showcase the power of the Ubuntu One API. The program makes a users’ files available via a FTP daemon running on localhost, meaning that a users’ files can be made available by use of a file manager or FTP client without needing the actual Ubuntu One client installed.

http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2012/07/05/u1ftp/

Canonical News

Ubuntu server 12.04: Fast and flexible

Canonical announces a webinar on the deployment of Ubuntu server. “Join Matthew Revell and Mark Baker from the Ubuntu Server team to learn about ... new technologies and how they can help you benefit from the same infrastructure as the world’s leading web scale companies.”

http://www.canonical.com/about-canonical/news-and-events/events/2012/07/12/live-webinar/ubuntu-server-1204-fast-and-flexible

In The Press

Why Google and Ubuntu don't say “Linux”

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of ZDNet has some thoughts of why Ubuntu and Google “don’t use the “L” word” and writes “You see this isn't about reality. It's about perception. Canonical and Google rather than try to fight how Linux is seen by most people ... have chosen to dodge the Linux brand issue entirely.”

http://www.zdnet.com/why-google-and-ubuntu-dont-say-linux-7000000221/

Shuttleworth: Why Windows 8 made us ditch GPL Linux loader

Gavin Clarke of The Register reports on Mark Suttleworth’s explaination as to why they decided to switch from the GPL licensed GRUB2 boot loader to Intel’s efilinux. Clarke writes: “According to Shuttleworth, this decision was taken because there is too much uncertainty surrounding the terms of the FSF's GPL v3 and its implications for Ubuntu's secret signing key.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/06/shuttleworth_responds_uefi/

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 11.04 Updates

Ubuntu 11.10 Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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